Sauromys

Sauromys

Taxobox
name = South African Flat-headed Bat
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Chiroptera
familia = Molossidae
genus = "Sauromys"The genus "Sauromys" contains a single species, the South African Flat-headed Bat "S. petrophilus" and is found in central-southern Africa including the countries of Namibia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, South Africa and a small part of western Mozambique.

Head and body length is 50-60 mm, tail length is 30-40 mm, and forearm length is 35-42 mm; weight is 9-22 grams. The upper parts are brownish gray to tawny olive and the underparts are paler.

This species differs from the closely related "Tadarida" in the flattened skull as well as some dental and other small structural details though is closer to "Mormopterus" in the flattened skull detail.Day time roosting is often beneath slabs of rock or in crevices outdoors rather than in caves where its flattened skull appears to be an adaptation. More than four bats are never found sleeping together.


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